05 Sep 1921
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1921
Page
1
Eamon De Valera again rejects Lloyd George proposals for Irish dominion home rule as the basis for peace talks. He demands recognition of Ireland's independence and abolition of force as the only preliminary for negotiations. Some officials view the situation gravely.
A drink crazed man is dislodged from a barricaded tenement after a two hour siege. Police armed with an iron axle and a knife engage in a tense standoff resulting in six wounded and the suspect captured.
Vice President Calvin Coolidge and 11 others, including Frank W. Stearns of Boston and Judge Richard W. Irwin, were knocked down in a lumber crash as a crowd of more than 6000 surged to aid them in Williamsburg this afternoon. Celebration marks the town's 150th anniversary with calls to avert pre war conditions.
A maniac barricaded on the second floor of 109 Silver Street wounded three police and others, slashing and bruising several as he held off authorities for over two hours. Fire hydrant water helped subdue him. Sergeant Daniel Toomey was badly hurt with a head wound.
The Post presents Peter Ruff, a new fictional criminal investigator praised as worthy to rank with Sherlock Holmes. E Phillips Oppenheim, famed author of over two million copies sold in the United States, introduces this unique character to be continued daily and in print.
The narrator notes no details of a Sunday evening supper at Daisy Villa Streatham implying the event helped birth one of history's most notable crime careers. The villa belonged to David Barnes a reputable coal merchant.
The parade of organized labor under the direction of the Boston Central Labor Union will start promptly at 7 PM. Participants and spectators are urged to arrive early and join the march through downtown routes.
Advertisements in the Boston Evening Transcript advertise comfortable rooms boarding places and apartments in city or suburbs. The paper says hundreds pick fall and winter homes from these listings each season and notes the 10 o'clock read.
A member of the Downing street circle states that the reply in question removes a crucial point, signaling a shift in position and prompting further comment from aides.
New York July 4 report states Prof Bos wick, an alleged internationally known astronomer, predicts dire flooding for Manhattan and the eastern Atlantic coast on Monday. He claims Saturn’s crossing will amplify tides, with Battery Park water at 3:30 PM and Times Square at 5 PM, Woolworth Tower to remain above water at midnight. He warns thousands will perish if ignored.
On the steamship Pocahontas from Keansburg to the Battery a free-for-all fight left one man drowned and 700 passengers panicked. Two men were held without bail by Magistrate Mancuso in Toombs Court on homicide suspicion. The drowned man was George Jones, 25, of 657 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn.
Twenty four people were injured when a Swampscott Bay State line trolley car exploded after a failed mechanism repair. Fifteen were hospitalized and five kept for treatment. Among the more seriously hurt were Mrs L S Anderson of Brookline and Henry Frye.
At Nantasket Beach near the Metropolitan Park Police Station three cars on the roller coaster collided early last night injuring ten people, several seriously. Victims were rushed to Sturgis Hospital at Allerton.
A forest fire near a portable mill in South Hampton New Hampshire burned 200000 feet of lumber owned by James W Watkins. The fire started by a lighted match burned a large woodland area before control was established.
Scores across American League and National League cities show Cleveland routing Detroit 90 to 5 and Chicago topping St. Louis 11 to 10 while Newark and Washington combine for a rainout. In the National League Boston beat New York 6 to 3 as Brooklyn 10 Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 2 Chicago 1 in 12 innings, and Chicago later defeats Cincinnati. In the major leagues Hartford crushed Bridgeport 28 to 0 with Bridgeport 5 Hartford 0 following, Worcester and Waterbury also play out results.
The most seriously injured is John T. Gibbons, 86, of Hobart street, Hingham, with both legs fractured. Others were Aldora M. Burke, 12, Maple road, Hingham, cerebral concussion and possible internal injuries. Miss Alice Delorey, 35, Maple road, Hingham, with severe facial lacerations and 16 stitches.
A man in a limousine jumped from a car at 6 am in front of the Avedon department store on Fifth Avenue between 5th and 40th Streets. He smashed a plate glass window with a cane, grabbed an ermine coat worth $1000, and fled. A rear watchman saw the theft but the suspect disappeared before reaching the front.
The Post publishes the first pictures from England of the wrecked ZR 2 in a pictorial section today. Exclusive coverage highlights a major airship disaster with images from the scene and analysis by staff.
Federal troops are in complete control of the troubled mining districts of West Virginia and the armed bands that have defied state and county authorities on the Boone Logan boundary line are rapidly disappearing, according to reports at military headquarters in Charleston.
The big people’s Pilgrim pageant was repeated at the New England fairgrounds Worcester this afternoon before more than 256000 spectators. Episodes were staged on the race track in front of the grandstand and were judged better than the June 17 and 18 presentation.
Philip Dolan, 43, a stationary fireman, fought his captors with superhuman resolve using a baby carriage weapon and two knives. He drove them into the street repeatedly as the struggle continued.
Newspaper fragment reports a timetable item noting moonlight lighting for vehicles at 7 43 PM daylight saving time.
Listings recount World War I anniversaries including the sinking of the British cruiser Pathfinder with 259 lives lost. Other notes mark the triple alliance pledge not to seek separate peace and a German shift toward Paris before 1914. Also referenced are Mayor’s plea for MacSwiney and Mexico’s election of General Obregon as president.
Forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for fair and warmer conditions Monday with possible showers at night. winds light east to south. Tuesday should be generally fair and warmer. Regional outlooks note increasing cloudiness and warmth in northern New England and southern New England with showers Monday. Eastern New York remains unsettled with possible thunder showers. The overall pattern ends the extended warm spell by Tuesday across the Great Lakes and mid Atlantic regions.
Forecasters expect a fair day with light winds and clear skies. Tonight will stay mild with comfortable temperatures similar to yesterday's readings.
A new phase in a major blackmail case involves a wealthy international figure allegedly coerced into paying a large sum. The investigation is conducted by the same Boston lawyers linked to the suit filed by Scott M. W. Paul of Methuen against former Middlesex County District Attorney William J. Corcoran.
Paul alleges Corcoran acted as his attorney and received 50000 to settle a claim against Victor Searles for allegedly alienating Mrs Pauls affections. Paul says he got 000 and only learned recently of the 50000. Whipple declines to discuss, citing client confidentiality. Corcoran says he will speak in court.
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